How: Interviewed Spanish exchange students one-to-one, used InDesign to create newsletter format
Why: Students learned how to explain events relative to the lives of youth in Spanish speaking countries. They learned how to narrate and how to use preterite vs. imperfect to narrate past events. Students learned to speak, listen, interpret, and write in Spanish.
7 Elements of Project-Based Learning
1. Driving Question: How are lives of students in other countries similar and/or different than those of U.S. students?
2. Need to Know: Students ask questions and get answers from their Spanish and technology teachers as the project progresses.
3. Inquiry and Innovation: Students are creating a product to address a need for bilingual exploration and recognition. 4. Student Voice and Choice: Students decide the story line, conduct the interviews, select the images and publishing choices. 5. Feedback and Revision: Students rely on their teachers, peers and group members throughout the project for advise on edits needed, layout changes and best publishing options. 6. 21st Century Skills: Communication, cooperation, organization, and coordinating are essential skills to complete the project. 7. Outside Audience: The finished newsletter is published and distributed to students in the school.
7 Elements of Project-Based Learning
1. Driving Question: How are lives of students in other countries similar and/or different than those of U.S. students?
2. Need to Know: Students ask questions and get answers from their Spanish and technology teachers as the project progresses.
3. Inquiry and Innovation: Students are creating a product to address a need for bilingual exploration and recognition.
4. Student Voice and Choice: Students decide the story line, conduct the interviews, select the images and publishing choices.
5. Feedback and Revision: Students rely on their teachers, peers and group members throughout the project for advise on edits needed, layout changes and best publishing options.
6. 21st Century Skills: Communication, cooperation, organization, and coordinating are essential skills to complete the project.
7. Outside Audience: The finished newsletter is published and distributed to students in the school.